Layoffs affect immigrant workers on an employer dependent visa much more than most, leaving people with mere weeks to find alternative sponsor before being deported from the country, along with their families. The
brutally crude cuts made by Elon Musk at the Twitter workforce made me think particularly about this demographic, which led me in turn to this incredible account of a computer engineer whose journey to US citizenship took
18 years to complete. Lots to think about here - do we factor in impact-for-employee when making redundancies, and how we can we make it easier for motivated people to become citizens of countries where they work, pay taxes and add value to society.